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Penny Sharman
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I’m a poet and photographer inspired by landscapes, shortlisted for Michael Marks Environmental Poet of the year 2023 winner of The Charles Causley International Poetry Prize 2025, shortlisted for The Wigtown Poetry Competition 2025
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November 12, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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My copy of Obsessed With Pipework is here! I’m really pleased to have two poems published in this edition - thanks to the editors Charles and Penny @blossoms21.bsky.social #poetry
The cover art of Obsessed With Pipework 112. It is a photo of three painted pebbles against a textured outside backdrop. The smaller two pebbles are painted blue and the larger pebble has a ghostly cheering face drawn on it. My two poems on facing pages. Blue Monday The sleet turns to rain and by morning streets fall under a writhing surge. Blue Monday is just a marketing ploy, still, millions dream, listen to inner voices summoning them to salt water. Yellow eels wait till the end to slip the shore; transmutation of glass to elver. Downpours saturate high ground and forecasters warn of water flowing from fields, turning to ice. The jet stream roils overhead as the eels silver in the rivers. Beyond the year’s corner there’s an eel unmoored in Hastings New Town bereft of passing trade, inked wintertide caught at Jempson’s Cafe and cast to sea. Dogwood Dogwood is exposed by the death of leaves, stiffened, pigmented burgundy with rust thin and catching in the sliced air, crossed and lonely as blood burning down to dust. A charm of goldfinches moves the nailed iron lingering in the air, redder than gold flitting and fragile as when they plucked thorns from the Calvary crown, staining their faces. Flying to chatter the ice to slivers, they strike prime against a frosted palette quivering soft wreaths of spring together resurrecting the dogwood to green again.
November 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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One Poem by Donna Pucciani
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November 2, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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October 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Dear Pink Floyd (Poem By UK Poet Laureate Simon Armitage)
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October 30, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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‘White-knuckled wolf spider’ thought lost is rediscovered on Isle of Wight
‘White-knuckled wolf spider’ thought lost is rediscovered on Isle of Wight
Conservationists hail ‘remarkable’ rediscovery after 40 years, at nature reserve only accessible by boat A tiny spider thought to have vanished for ever from the UK has been rediscovered on a remote area of a nature reserve accessible only by boat. The Aulonia albimana, a member of the wolf spider family with orange legs, was found on the Isle of Wight in a spot grazed by a flock of Hebridean sheep. Continue reading...
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October 30, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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October 30, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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October 25, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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So pleased to be on the longlist with so many fellow poets congratulations to everyone
International Poetry Competition 2025
Live Canon perform poetry, publish poetry and create poetry events.
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October 23, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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So pleased to be on the longlist with so many fellow poets congratulations to everyone
International Poetry Competition 2025
Live Canon perform poetry, publish poetry and create poetry events.
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October 23, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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October 16, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Portpatrick the end of the world!
October 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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September 28, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Dear Professor Maxwell,
Thank you for trusting me with that.
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September 18, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti, St Catherine, 1857
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date inscribed Bequeathed by Mrs Emily Toms in memory of her father, Joseph Kershaw 1931
September 18, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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